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48 THE WORKS OF
Until that moment, he did not know what it
was to make a choice; but when he saw at
Florence the works of Leonardo da Vinci, and
of Michael Angelo, it awakened his great spirit,
and his ardent mind was urged to think of
more than simple imitation. These works had
notwithstanding a kind of choice and grandeur;
but in themselves they were not sufficiently
beautiful to serve our Raphael as a guide to the
choice of a good Taste ; because a thing which
is intended to communicate itself to others, and
to serve as a true model, ought to be not only
just but perfectly beautiful. On this account
he therefore remained for some time in a kind
of obseurity, and advanced himself only by ssow
heps; but when at last he saw in Rome the
works of the ancients, then he found his proper
genius to inssame him. He had formed as a
basis the justness of the eye, from whence he
did not find it difficult to imitate the ancients in
the same manner as he had imitated Nature ;
but with all that, he never left the custom of
following always Nature, and learnt only of the
ancients to make a good choice of the same.
He found, that they had not generally followed it
in its minutiae; but had chosen only the necessary
and beautiful parts, and rejected the superssuous;
srom whence he found consided one of the
beauties os the ancients in their designs, and from
this he sirst meliorated the Art in that point.
He comprehended, nevqrtheless, that in the
admirable construction os the human body, the
articulation ofthe bones and members formed
Until that moment, he did not know what it
was to make a choice; but when he saw at
Florence the works of Leonardo da Vinci, and
of Michael Angelo, it awakened his great spirit,
and his ardent mind was urged to think of
more than simple imitation. These works had
notwithstanding a kind of choice and grandeur;
but in themselves they were not sufficiently
beautiful to serve our Raphael as a guide to the
choice of a good Taste ; because a thing which
is intended to communicate itself to others, and
to serve as a true model, ought to be not only
just but perfectly beautiful. On this account
he therefore remained for some time in a kind
of obseurity, and advanced himself only by ssow
heps; but when at last he saw in Rome the
works of the ancients, then he found his proper
genius to inssame him. He had formed as a
basis the justness of the eye, from whence he
did not find it difficult to imitate the ancients in
the same manner as he had imitated Nature ;
but with all that, he never left the custom of
following always Nature, and learnt only of the
ancients to make a good choice of the same.
He found, that they had not generally followed it
in its minutiae; but had chosen only the necessary
and beautiful parts, and rejected the superssuous;
srom whence he found consided one of the
beauties os the ancients in their designs, and from
this he sirst meliorated the Art in that point.
He comprehended, nevqrtheless, that in the
admirable construction os the human body, the
articulation ofthe bones and members formed